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Laurie Colwin Quotes

We need time to defuse, to contemplate. Just as in sleep our brains relax and give us dreams, so at some time in the day we need to disconnect, reconnect, and look around us.

Laurie Colwin

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: author
Nationality: american
Birth: June 14, 1944 - October 24, 1992

Topics

Dreams Time Day Sleep Relax Look

Two new reports indicate that, under Bush, the Army is overstretched and under enormous strain. The National Guard and reserves have been weakened and we are experiencing numerous recruiting problems.

Jim Clyburn

Problems Army New Two Recruiting

The conventional viewpoint says we need a jobs program and we need to cut welfare. Just the opposite! We need more welfare and fewer jobs.

Jerry Brown

More Need Welfare Cut Opposite Just

What's easy to forget once you're minorly famous is how nerve-racking it is to walk up to someone famous and interrupt them. When I'm taking a picture with a fan, it's not uncommon for their hands to be shaking or for me to feel their heart pounding through their rib cage. But the best part is how easy it is for me to make someone's day.

Max Joseph

Heart Best Walk Day Me Picture

The fundamental question of political philosophy, one that precedes questions about how the state should be organized, is whether there should be any state at all. Why not have anarchy?

Robert Nozick

Political Questions Philosophy Why

I don't have incredible knowledge about films or of filmmaking history; I'm not that kind of person.

Ang Lee

Knowledge History Filmmaking Person

I'm an artist, not a philosopher.

Robert Wilson

Artist Philosopher

Peter Fleming was a famous English traveler, explorer and adventurer, whose non-fiction books were hugely successful. My father owned signed copies of all of them - he and Peter Fleming had become acquainted over some detail of set design at the Korda film studio in Shepperton - and I had read each of them with breathless adolescent excitement.

Michael Korda

Father Detail Famous Design Become

I don't know if there's an actors' slow-pitch softball league I could join. My agency has a team, but they say it would be a conflict of interest for the people they rep to play because I could hit a pop-up and they'd have to drop it on purpose.

Miles Teller

Purpose People Team Conflict Play

Guys don't really don't wanna hear if it's really smart, and women feel uncomfortable if you reveal stuff they're going to have to remember they did themselves.

Liz Phair

Women Smart Remember Uncomfortable

When you work at Google and tell these engineers that their skill set is relevant to somebody in Iran who doesn't have access to information in their country or the rest of the world, it really inspires them to want to do something about it. There is a genuine altruism that exists at this company, and that's why I'm here and not anywhere else.

Jared Cohen

Work World Rest You Information

In your twenties, you might want to be radical and change the world, but in your thirties, you might just want to be happy and ground yourself.

Jonathan Krisel

Change Change The World Yourself You

I've had rooms that didn't come out to my liking.

Douglas Wilson

Out Come Liking Rooms Had